Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 1 May 2014
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 16 - Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 17 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 18 - Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 19 - Domiciliary Care Allowance
Chapter 20 - Invalidity Pension
Social Insurance Fund Annual Accounts 2012
12:35 pm
Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:
We have concluded a competition that was advertised before the end of last year and will be immediately going back to market to look to recruit. As soon as we get them, we lose them. It is a difficult job. There is a lot of work to be done. We have an agenda to increase that amount of work so we are having to look at other ways to supplement our cadre and that is what we are doing at the moment.